Daniel Meadows testified on Friday he went outside where he was staying at 13 Aspen St. near Daytona Beach while still dark that morning and saw his friend Brian Leverett holding a flashlight and armed with a shotgun. Leverett was scared but he walked out into the street with the shotgun.

Then Meadows testified he heard a threat and the gunfire. Then Meadows saw Leverett running toward him.

“And (Leverett) started to collapse towards me and said, ‘Danny, I'm hit. Help me,' and he fell towards me . . . to his knees and that's when I put my arms around him. . . . and the whole time there was nothing but gunshots being fired and they were hitting my carport walls, hitting everywhere around me, trash cans. I had ricochets going everywhere. How I wasn't hit I have no idea."

Ray Curtis Greenlaw, 55, was charged with first-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, shooting into a building and attempted first-degree murder. Wayne Robert Greenlaw, 53, was charged with first-degree murder and shooting into an occupied building.

They are accused of killing Leverett, 41. The Greenlaws lived at 9 Aspen St. and Leverett lived down the street. Justin Riley also lived in the neighborhood.

The Greenlaw brothers sat like orange bookends in their jail jumpsuits as their two defense attorneys sat between them in Circuit Judge Margaret Hudson's courtroom at the Volusia County Courthouse in DeLand. Hudson will set a date to continue the hearing, which could not be finished on Friday.

Leverett and Riley visited the Greenlaws that morning. The men did not know each other and according to testimony all the men had been drinking. Riley had been hoping to sell some pills to the Greenlaws but the encounter ended in an argument, according to testimony.

Ray Greenlaw is also accused of using a machete to slash Riley in the arm.

Afterward, Ray Greenlaw went back inside, where Wayne Greenlaw armed himself with a .223-caliber rifle and handed a pistol to Ray Greenlaw, a convicted felon who was not supposed to have guns. Then they walked back outside.

But going outside could pose a problem for the defense, said George “Bob” Dekle, a law professor at the University of Florida, in a previous interview.

“You have no duty to retreat but you don't have a privilege to attack,” Dekle said.

Both stand-your-ground motions state the brothers were in fear for their own safety and their mother's when they walked outside the house carrying firearms.

Leverett pointed his flashlight and shotgun at Wayne Greenlaw and ordered him to put down his weapon, according to Wayne Greenlaw's motion.

Wayne Greenlaw opened fire “in the vicinity of the light,” emptying his rifle of 12 to 15 bullets, “all of which he fired in self-defense, reasonably believing his life to be threatened,” according to his motion.

When Wayne Greenlaw started shooting, Ray Greenlaw thought his brother saw something threatening that he had not seen, so he opened fire, according to the motion filed by his attorney, assistant public defender Jim Valerino.

Wayne Greenlaw's defense attorney Steven Laurence pretended to be holding a shotgun at his shoulder and pointing it in circular motions around the courtroom as he asked Meadows whether that's what Leverett was doing after he left the carport. Meadows said it was.

Later Laurence asked Meadows the manner in which Leverett asked Wayne Greenlaw to put down the rifle he was carrying. Laurence asked him if Leverett had been polite or did he say -- and then Laurence screamed -- “Put the (expletive) gun down.”

Meadows said it was the latter.

But Meadows also said that the other person, whom he believed to be Wayne Greenlaw, threatened Leverett.